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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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Beautiful Bribe Equality Friendship Relationship
Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Corporation Difference Government Passionate Problem
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Children Learning Parents Problem Recognition Solution
Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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Guilty People Sleep Young
The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
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Atmosphere Global Interdependence Key Symbol
Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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Choice Female History Male
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Believe Care Change People Power
For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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Elder History See Time Young
For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.
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Conversation Deep Evolution Human Species
It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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Care Earth Moon Ourselves Photograph Planet Realize
Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Country Feeling Parents Young
There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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Culture Each Other Hierarchy Right Value
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Fact Family Invention Mom Social
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Hard Work Learning Myself Value
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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Ability Creation Daydream Effort Equality Experience Man Reward
Women have an important contribution to make.
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Contribution Important Value Woman Women Empowerment

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